What kind of difference would I notice?

Aloreth · 22 May 2015 at 14:08

So the monitor I have is something in the region of 9 years old, its an apple 21 inch cinema display (or something along those lines, its old enough that it doesn’t feature on the apple website). It definitely isn’t a thunderbolt display.

The monitor still works perfectly fine and I (imho) I still think it looks like a classy bit of kit. I was wondering what sort of difference I am likely to see in upgrading to a newer monitor? I don’t think I would want something wildly larger, perhaps something in the region of 27 inches as a maximum.

I assume there must be concrete advances in technology but would appreciate it if someone could let me know what sort of benefit I am likely to see. Budget isn’t really too much of a problem, I guess I would be happy to spend £700 ish

Any suggestions welcomed.

Nasher · 22 May 2015 at 20:03

All modern monitors will look a lot better most likely. Also 21 inch is tiny

If your not looking for a gaming monitor, you could get something like this which is 4k and has great colours: https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-077-DE&groupid=17&catid=1120

itchy · 22 May 2015 at 22:23

Night and day is what springs to mind!

My monitor is 7 years old and when I go in the shops and see the shiny IPS displays, am like just wait I need other stuff first.

Tephnos · 23 May 2015 at 02:05

Aloreth said:
So the monitor I have is something in the region of 9 years old, its an apple 21 inch cinema display (or something along those lines, its old enough that it doesn’t feature on the apple website). It definitely isn’t a thunderbolt display.

The monitor still works perfectly fine and I (imho) I still think it looks like a classy bit of kit. I was wondering what sort of difference I am likely to see in upgrading to a newer monitor? I don’t think I would want something wildly larger, perhaps something in the region of 27 inches as a maximum.

I assume there must be concrete advances in technology but would appreciate it if someone could let me know what sort of benefit I am likely to see. Budget isn’t really too much of a problem, I guess I would be happy to spend £700 ish

Any suggestions welcomed.

At 9 years old it's probably some kind of CCFL tech - which means over the years the image is probably going to be crap with the backlight slowly going. You'll see big differences with modern IPS screens I'd think.